What is social engineering?

What will be an ideal response?


One common way that attackers gain access to an organization's resources cannot be prevented with hardware or software. The vulnerability in this case is well-meaning but gullible employees who attackers fool into giving out passwords or other access codes. This is called social engineering.  To protect itself against personnel who do not observe accepted security practices or who willfully abuse them, an organization needs a strong and consistently enforced security policy and a rigorous training program.

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A. end B. destination C. target D. personal

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Give an example of an instance of the Transcript relation (with the attributes StudId, CrsCode, Semester, and Grade) and a hash function on the attribute sequence {StudId; Grade} that sends two identical tuples in StudId;Semester(Transcript) into different hash buckets.

What will be an ideal response?

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?In a description list,for each item, the dt element must come before the dd element.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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A ______________________ is when the user moves the mouse pointer over the element.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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